Jackson v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that trial court did not abuse 18 its discretion when it allowed hearsay testimony as an excited utterance from a witness who was inside a house at the time of a shooting and heard, but did not physically see, the shooting
• “[I]f there is any direct evidence presented by the State, the circumstantial evidence statute does not apply to a sufficiency analysis.”
• circumstantial evidence sufficient when witnesses saw appellant with handgun near scene of shooting, saw appellant and victim fighting, and saw car similar to that owned by appellant speeding away immediately after shooting
• “[I]f there is any direct evidence presented by the State, the circumstantial evidence statute does not apply to a sufficiency manifested by external circumstances capable of proof.” OCGA § 16-5-1 (b

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Grier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-02-15· cited 23×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-08-09· cited 4×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-12-14· cited 3×
• Metz v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-05-06· cited 3×
• Coston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-10· cited 1×
• Christopher Kamusoko v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-01-14
• Richardson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-08-26
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-09-30
• Montgomery v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-12-09
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-04-21
• Monroe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-04-21
• Banks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-06-16

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-10-22· cited 41×
• Dublin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-09-13· cited 32×
• Boyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 32×
• McCord v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-03-04· cited 29×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-08-20· cited 17×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-01-17· cited 16×
• Atkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-19· cited 14×
• Favors v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-03-04· cited 12×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-19· cited 11×
• Fincher v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-12-20· cited 6×